Building the Foundation for Noyce Master Teaching Fellowships in Mathematics

该项目旨在通过建设创建教育领导和数学在线硕士学位的能力，满足培养数学硕士教师的国家需求。该项目将通过发展和评估小学、中学和高中数学教师的教学和领导技能，服务于国家利益和诺伊斯计划的意图。这一点很重要，因为这个项目有潜力为教师提供知识和技能，以提高学生从幼儿园到高中毕业的数学成绩。对该项目具有重要意义的是确定如何最好地从高需求学区招聘教师，并将目前为期25个月的硕士学位--Bank Street目前的数学教育领导力项目(LME)--修改为修改后的“14个月数学教育领导力在线硕士学位”。作为一项能力建设项目，拟将所获得的信息用于制定第三轨道硕士教学研究金诺伊斯提案。银行街教育学院是一所私立硕士学位授予机构，该项目与私立综合性大学贡萨加大学合作，包括与纽约市教育部和芝加哥公立学校的伙伴关系。五个目标指导这一能力建设项目的实施。首先是进行需求评估，为硕士教学奖学金计划的数学教育领导力硕士学位的设计提供信息。二是强化硕士课程设计、课程设置和课程设置。第三是试行硕士教师项目的招聘策略。第四是与高需求的学区和专业学习组织建立伙伴关系，第五是确保匹配资金，以支持未来的Noyce Track 3提交。该项目智力价值的核心是通过对包括农村和城市在内的大量高需求学区的数学教学和教师进行需求评估而获得的理解。该项目的更广泛影响在于正在为在线硕士学位课程的修订奠定基础，该课程最终将使硕士教师在基于建构主义方法的理论和经验基础上的教学实践中做好准备，以及使数学硕士教师能够对学生在课堂和校园内的学习产生影响的领导技能。Bank Street已经与一个评估团队合作，他们将能够通过焦点小组和访谈收集和分析定性数据，并获得关于Bank Street当前类似硕士项目的市场研究和课程有效性的数据。该项目的调查结果旨在支持创建Noyce Track 3提案，并将通过国家渠道，包括侧重于数学教学的组织进行传播。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(NOYCE)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project aims to serve the national need of developing master teachers in mathematics by building capacity for the creation of an online master’s degree in educational leadership and mathematics. This project will serve national interest and the Noyce program’s intent by developing and evaluating teaching and leadership skills in elementary, middle school, and high school teachers of mathematics. This is important because this program has the potential to provide teachers with the knowledge and skill to increase student achievement in mathematics from kindergarten to high school graduation. Significant to this project is the identification of how to best recruit teachers from high-need school districts and the revision of a current 25-month master's degree, Bank Street’s current Leadership in Mathematics Education program (LME), to a modified “14-month online master’s degree in Leadership in Mathematics Education.” As a capacity building project, the information garnered is proposed to be used in developing a Track 3 Master Teaching Fellowships Noyce proposal. This project at Bank Street College of Education, a private, master’s degree granting institution, in collaboration with Gonzaga University, a private comprehensive university, includes partnerships with the New York City Department of Education and the Chicago Public Schools. Five goals guide the execution of this Capacity Building project. First is to conduct a needs assessment to inform the design of a Master’s degree in Leadership in Mathematics Education for a Master Teaching Fellowships program. Second is to solidify program design, curriculum, and course offerings for the master’s degree. Third is to pilot-test recruitment strategies for a master’s teacher program. Fourth is to build partnerships with high-need school districts and professional learning organizations and fifth is to secure matching funds in support of a future Noyce Track 3 submission. Central to the project’s intellectual merit is the understanding that can be gained by conducting a needs assessment of mathematics teaching and teachers from a wide array of high-need school districts including rural and urban. The project’s broader impacts lie in the foundation that is being laid for the revision of an online master’s degree program that would eventually prepare master teachers in theoretically and empirically based pedagogical practices grounded in the constructivist’s approach, coupled with leadership skills that will enable the mathematics master teachers to have an impact on student learning in their classrooms and across their campuses. Bank Street has partnered with a team of evaluators who will be able to gather and analyze qualitative data through focus groups and interviews, as well as obtain data on market research and curricular effectiveness of a current, similar master's program at Bank Street. The findings of this project are intended to support the creation of a Noyce Track 3 proposal and will be disseminated through national channels, including organizations that focus on the teaching of mathematics. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.